Though the PETA protest ended up diluted by the huge crowd that gathered for the annual parade, Rose McCoy, a 12-year-old New Yorker, managed the jump the police barricade as the SeaWorld float went by, holding up a sign and chanting her conviction: Boycott SeaWorld.

The protests were stirred up by the documentary about orcas in captivity, Blackfish. The film focuses mostly on Tilikum, the largest orca in captivity in the world, who is housed in SeaWorld Orlando and is father to many of the parks younger orcas. In almost 30 years of captivity, Tilikum has been involved in three incidents that ended in human lives being lost, while routinely being raked and bullied by the female orcas.

The protest lasted only a few seconds before officers arrived, appearing to shove her backwards into the barricade before someone shouts, "that's a kid!"

“One of the cops said I ruined the parade, which actually made my day,” McCoy told the NY Daily News after being lifted back over the barricade.